12 Dec 1989
ASIA DYEING CO LTD AND OTHERS v. THE AUTHORITY
- Citation
- ASIA DYEING CO LTD AND OTHERS v. THE AUTHORITY
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV87/1989
The court held that although section 9(1) requires the Authority to indicate whether a nuisance is existing or imminent, that requirement is directory not mandatory; failure to state existence or imminence in the precise form used does not vitiate a section 9 notification where the defect does not frustrate the statute's purpose; section 10(2) should be read purposively so prosecutions require proof of either existence or imminence regardless of the precise wording of the notice.